Most of us have interpreted the goal like this

Yes, I noticed. It would have been silly to post something that was already posted.

There's no rule that says that the first dimension must be rows and the second must be columns. Here code that shows my solution does indeed use @array1 as the first column and @array2 as the second column. 

my @array1 = qw( a b c );
my @array2 = qw( X Y Z );

my @matrix = (\@array1, \@array2);

for my $row (0..$#{$matrix[0]}) {
   for my $col (0..$#matrix) {
      print $matrix[$col][$row], "\t";
   }
   print "\n";
}

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a       X
b       Y
c       Z

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Update: Added code.

In reply to Re^3: Creating two dimensional array by ikegami
in thread Creating two dimensional array by Anonymous Monk

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